Chocolatier · United Arab Emirates
The desert, tempered.
Fine chocolate made in the Emirates, where summer passes fifty degrees and chocolate melts at thirty-four.
Sahar, the hour before dawn, is the coolest hour of the desert day. Hence the name.
01The flavours
Six flavours from the Gulf table.
Every piece begins with something you would be offered in an Emirati home.
تمر
Khalas dates
Soft, dark and close to toffee. We cook them down to a caramel.
Find it inNo. 01 Khalas
- تمر Khalas dates Soft, dark and close to toffee. We cook them down to a caramel.
- زعفران Saffron Threads steeped in warm cream until it turns gold.
- هيل Cardamom In the coffee, in the sweets, in the air of every majlis.
- فستق Pistachio Roasted and ground to a praliné, with the crunch of a good kunafa.
- ورد Rose Floral but never perfumed, with raspberry to keep it bright.
- قهوة Arabic coffee Pale and lightly roasted, the first thing offered to a guest.
02The craft
Three temperatures. One snap.
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45°
Melt
Heat undoes every crystal in the cocoa butter. The chocolate forgets its shape.
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27°
Cool
Spread across cold marble, it begins to form the one crystal worth keeping: Form V.
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31°
Warm
Warmed a few degrees, the unstable crystals melt away. What remains sets with a mirror shine and breaks clean.
03The collection
Five pieces. Nothing hidden.
Turn each piece. Cut it open to see how it is built, from the shell to the heart.
No. 01
Khalas
خلاص
Date caramel, fleur de sel
Khalas dates are soft, dark and close to toffee. We cook them down to a caramel and set it on a thin layer of salted almond praliné.
- Shell
- Dark chocolate
- Filling
- Khalas date caramel
- Base
- Salted almond praliné
- Finish
- Edible gold leaf
04Bespoke
Your words, set in chocolate.
A name, a date, a line in Arabic or English. Or your company's logo. Try yours.
For companies Your logo pressed into tablets, printed in cocoa butter on each piece and foil-stamped on the box. See it on a box
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Ramadan & Eid
Boxes for iftar and the Eid table, packed to travel from one majlis to the next.
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ii
Weddings
A favour for every guest, with both names pressed into the chocolate.
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New arrivals
Chocolates to announce a birth, with the name and the date.
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iv
Company gifts
Your logo pressed into the chocolate and stamped on the box, for clients you would like to remember you.
05Your box
Your box, piece by piece.
Pick a size and a cover, then fill it yourself or leave it to us. Your words or your company's logo go on the lid.
Sample logo
Choose a piece to place it.
06Until the next Sahar
Taste it the way it left us.
We hold private tastings for weddings, companies and the simply curious. Tell us who is coming and when, and we will write back to arrange it.